About

We turn books in the United States public domain into free audiobooks. Download one and it’s yours to keep. You don’t need an account, and there’s no paywall or tracking.

Making the audiobooks

We start with an edition from Standard Ebooks. Its volunteers proofread the text against scans of printed books, format it, and make the cover art.

Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS model creates the narration a few paragraphs at a time. When it starts a new passage, it also gets the end of the previous one as context. This helps the voice stay consistent.

We use the ebook’s table of contents to set the chapter breaks. We skip page numbers, footnotes, and pages that aren’t meant to be read aloud. The narration, chapters, and cover art all go into one M4B file.

Downloading and listening

Each book is one file. Apple Books, Audiobookshelf, VLC, and most other audiobook apps can open it, show the chapters, and remember where you stopped.

Each book page tells you the recording’s length and download size before you start. How to listen has app recommendations for each platform.

If we replace a recording, the new version gets a new URL. Old links keep working and always point to the same audio.

About the voice

The voice comes from a model, not a person. It can mispronounce names, misread abbreviations, or change its delivery between passages.

A recording that has been listened to from start to finish by a person is marked Verified by a human. Until then, it is marked Pending human verification. Even a verified recording may have mistakes.

Public domain and license

Standard Ebooks describes its texts and cover art as public domain in the United States. Copyright terms differ by country, so check your local law before redistributing a book.

We release the audio under CC0. You can copy it, host it, remix it, or sell it. You don’t need permission or attribution.